Plzeň started building a parking house for 433 cars at Světovar for CZK 198 million

Plzeň started building an eight-storey parking house for 433 cars today on the site of the former barracks and brewery Světovar in the Slovany district. The parking house, worth CZK 198 million, is a condition for the city to be able to build three apartment buildings with up to 150 flats in the same area. The city wants to build parking houses or multi-storey car parks in other districts as well, said Pavel Bosák (Piráti), the deputy mayor's technical director, at the start of the construction.

"The important thing is that this will unblock this area so that apartment buildings and multifunctional buildings can be built here in the future. So that the places that currently serve as temporary parking lots can become full-fledged plots," he said. The building will be fitted with a parking system, he said. All spaces will thus be paid with access to smart cards or parking tickets. Rates will be set differently for different user groups.

The parking building, measuring roughly 35 by 50 metres, will have three underground and five above-ground floors. "Interestingly, all parking spaces will have an extra width of 2.7 metres. The legal minimum is 2.4 metres and they are mostly building 2.5 metres. The cars are bigger and bigger and it will be more comfortable for everyone to use," said Radim Smékal from Strabag, the company that is building the house. The house is planned to have parking spaces on the ground floor with charging stations for electric cars, which should be five to ten percent, around 30 spaces. "The whole building is a big concrete box. The mass will be lightened by glass walls on both staircases at the corners of the building and a ventilated steel facade, and the entire roof will be green, which is great for rainwater management and for the microclimate of the area," Smékal said.

According to councillor Svetlana Budková (STAN), who is responsible for urban housing, the town hall plans to build three apartment buildings with approximately 150 apartments of all sizes on Světovar. The first two buildings, each with approximately 40 flats, should be completed in 2026. They can only come into use when the parking building with parking spaces for future residents is operational. The ground floor of the first house is to house the municipal police station, while the other houses will also have commercial space for shops. The apartments in the first house should preferably be given to employees strategic for the city, such as health workers, social service workers, police officers, etc.

Other parking houses or rather smaller multi-storey car parks are being prepared by the city in other parts. "This year we plan to tender the construction of a parking house at Atom in Lochotín and we already have two more multi-storey car parks in Vinice and Lochotín," Bosák said. Cumulatively, the capacity of parking spaces should increase by up to hundreds.

Source: CTK